"A man who couldn't make things go right……" — William Least Heat-Moon
"A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."
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40 Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon has 40 quotes on this site.
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To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light,…
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No yesterdays on the road.
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Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect…
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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
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I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known…
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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain.…
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away…
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One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very…
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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing…
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[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So,…
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Stand up, Chuck, let them see you.
— Joe Biden
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For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved…
— Rudyard Kipling
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When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least…
— Steven Morrissey
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